She completed her study of film production and distribution at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava with the Rector’s prize. She and the screenwriter of the script Pred odletom (Before Take-Off) were awarded the main prize at the Midpoint international workshop. The successful short film Arsy Versy has won over 40 international film festival awards. Barbara has worked for several production companies, for the Audiovisual Fund as an application administrator, and later as a member of several expert committees. In 2007, she founded AH production, where as a producer she develops and produces full-length documentary and feature films. After receiving her doctorate, she works as an instructor at the Department of Production and Distribution as well as a member of the academic senate at the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts. In addition, she was a participant in the Emerging Producers 2014 program run by the IFF Jihlava.
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